Comment by pnathan

> (whose main skill was mainly to get all the SVPs to stop shivving each other in the quest to grow revenue)

Having once been on an engineering team where we all wound up shivving each other's ideas in a quest to, idk, do good work? be alpha? its been a while - when the company hired a manager who was able to stop the shivving, it was like night and day. I can deeply respect that skill!